Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities to maintain their current capacity to resettle refugees.

Work has begun with key stakeholders and international partners on our future Asylum and Resettlement Strategy, which includes consideration of the UK’s resettlement offer beyond 2020.

Delivery of the Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) has relied strongly on the principles of collaboration and co-design between central and local government and other partners and it is likely that any future resettlement offer would seek to build on that model.

We are grateful to the 300+ local authorities who came forward to participate in the VPRS. Through the collective goodwill and efforts of all involved over 14,900 vulnerable refugees fleeing the brutal conflict have now found safety in the UK to rebuild their lives.